Quote by Elif Batuman

“Honey, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman…

— Charles Palliser

“I don’t care that I no longer have my grandma to keep me company at the dining room table. Especially since she tasted so…

— Jarod Kintz

“But here there were houses full of *stuff*, fancy sheets woven with silk floss as soft as a baby's bum; fancy washstands carved of…

— Meredith Duran

“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being…

— David Sedaris

“That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.”

— Sophie Divry

“I sat staring at the carpet for the longest time, trying to put everything I’d learned into some sort of meaningful order, but it…

— G.M. Ford

“Three glasses of wine and two dozen dresses later, I stepped into a structured faille Oscar de la Renta. Absurdly puffy— and dreamily green.…

— Lauren Okie

“Alarmingly, though, on top of the bookcase there is also a family portrait of Bea with two just-as-striking blond-and-blue-eyed sisters and a pair of…

— Jess Walter

“sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.”

— Wallace Stegner